Judges have little
discretion on child support unless the parties agree.
Not exact matches
; when should the court employ shared custody
child support guidelines) our appellate courts have merely vested our family courts with
discretion without providing any guidance
on what factors should shape that
discretion.
On November 21, 2014 the Kentucky Court of Appeals decided a
child support issue where it found the Boyd Circuit Court had abused its
discretion by requiring a parent to divide the transportation cost of a
child to and from extracurricular activities in addition to
child support.
We review the court's ruling
on a petition for modification of
child support for an abuse of
discretion.
(a) Title 38 U.S.C. § 3107 (a)(2), which gives the VA discretionary authority to apportion disability compensation
on behalf of a veteran's
children, is not an exclusive grant of authority to the VA to order that
child support be paid from disability benefits, and does not indicate that exercise of the VA's
discretion could yield independent
child support determinations in conflict with existing state court orders.